Can India have a media, which is distinctly its own? By definition, media connects people with the country and the country with the rest of the world. Indian media cannot cut itself off from the rest of the world for if it does, it will be failing in its duty of keeping the people fully informed. Bu...
Rakhi (18), who hails from a village near Bakrahat, South 24 Paraganas, West Bengal was married off to Bhanu (31). It’s a matter of disgrace that Rakhi’s parents couldn’t afford her daughter’s education but could readily marry her off to a man who is 13 years elder than her and could readily...
A recent report published by the Reuters Foundation in collaboration with Oxford University reveals that India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing markets for US-based technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. India’s Twitter users currently number at 26.7 million, and as of J...
Sarbabharatiya Sangeet-O-Sanskriti Parishad along with School of Music, Art & Culture at IISD Edu World, organized its 14th All India Annual Exhibition of Paints, Sculptures, Graphics & Photography titled “Creative Nook” at Lalitkala Akademi, New Delhi, from October 6-12, 2017.&nbs...
The Indian media often refers to the 21-month ‘emergency’ (1975-77) to demonstrate the consequences of a government clamp down. The heroic fight back of some of the media houses is shown as having brought ‘freedom’. Four decades have passed; the society has changed and so has its media. But ...
According to a popular adage, ‘to carry coals to Newcastle’ is foolish. But, M. Mahadevan proved that phrase wrong when, way back in the early 1980s, he launched Hot Breads and took the lowly baked bread to a totallydifferent dimension.But, let’s go back a bit, to the late 1970s when, a night ...
Rehabilitation of the victims of human trafficking The initiative of Dr. H.P Kanoria, Chairman SREI Foundation Avijit Kumar and Bikramjit Sen met B. V. Chandrasekhar, DC DD Special, Kolkata Police, at his residence on November 9, 2017 to discuss the progress made on rehabilitating the resc...
Many women from nondescript backward villages of Beawar in Rajasthan, who were too scared to think about their future a year ago, now sit on electric sewing machines at the Shree Stree Shakti Yojna Centre stitching designer dressesand bags as they greet each other in English while calculating the co...
Today’s social media come under a few big global names - the Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Twitter and the Microsoft. The slightly ‘older’ media – the television and cinema – also fall under a few global names – Disney, NewsCorp (Star), Viacom, Time Warner and Bertelsmann. Almost all the ...
The Dalal Street hosted by La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, has provided an opportunity to students to employ their theoretical knowledge of business and economics to real world situations. Continuing for three consecutive years, the event is an initiative undertaken by the commerce department of th...
